Published Every Thursday.
Volume 6.
) Worth the )
S YOUR SAVINGS ARE WEL?.
\ WHEN YOU BUY RELfABLr/ JEWELERY.X
r It wears and gives pleasure for years and is£
\ always worth the price paid for it. Our manyX
112 years of business at the same stand with the same 112
\ principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery/
Q is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. }
112 We intend that this store shall be first in yourC
} thoughts when that buying reliable jewelery ques- J
\ tion come up. Our prices have reached thesbottom C
\ scale, they can nowhere be made lower'for the ✓
S same grade of goods. \
• Always Ready for Repairwork. J
) Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our J
\ hands. To get values come here after them,
Very respectfully, r
} RETTENBURY, i
J DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. C,
, Coles y
DUSHORE, PA.
Preparation for Winter should
include a call here.
jfuntaces.
Nothing like them for house warming. Is your spare
room a winter terror ? Putin our new improved furnace
and live in comfort.
Kblumbino*
i Have it done now. Thi6 is the time for exammmg
•the plumbing. We'll make the best time and do the beet
work for you. ■
Marfcwarc.
Special low prices prevail here. No danger of infer
iority. Our hardware line is as good as can be made.
Steam Fittings, Stoves and Ranges, Farm Tools, Etc.
(Seneval 3ob Tided;, Bicycle "(Repairing.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
313 Pine Street,
WILLI AM SPORT, PA.
MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE.
This means a saving on a good many articles that you
have either a present or future need for.
SILKS. TAILOR-MADE SUITS.
One lot of Fancy Silk for Waiste, in A tow Lidies' Tailor Made SnitH in
stripes and corded eflect, ali good colors, good colors with full flounced skirt* ind
for 50c, the regular price has been 75c to neat duckets nt one third and one half oil
87c. the regular price.
One lot Fancy Waist Silk. large part FLANNEL T^AISTS.
of them this season's styles, worth 90c to An ., SKOr | t . H ]ot of Ladies' French
$1.25, sale price 1 5c. these are only a Flannel Waists all new this season, in
few of the s.lks reduced. o]l , reMe da, cardinal, etc.
DRESS GOODS. Your choice at one hall the market price.
Suisse ai. M '" d „ HOUSEHOLD LINEN .
2 pieces 45-inch all wool Grey Serge ' lx l ' s ' I leai hid I able Linen,
and 2 pieces 50-inch Suiting, have ben .jual'ty, for 20. _
75c now 50c One lot lull bleached All-Linen, good
'one lot of plain and mixed French "Xtc quality, for .l.issale 40c.
Dress Goods in brown, navv, greens, blue 1 "bUac'ie. l 1 able Linen,which
, „ . ... " . , . . we have considered a bargain at 50c,
greys and fancies. 42 to 48 inches wide. how
These have been 75c to $1.25 all go now extra heavy, very
At ' TTTT'Da " eHI l li,,,l Tns, our fiOc qualitv for 50c.
r UKb. 70 inch Half Bleached Damask, was
A leading furrier has consigned to us 75c now 07c.
to be closed out, a large line of medium _______ A _
and fine Marten and Fox Nock Scarfs UNDER\A/EAR.
and Boas, which we can offer you at Men - 8 F|lll F | eeced shirts and Draw
manufacturer s prices We mention one erß _, fl on |v_the shirts are
item-a Marten Scarf with a cluster of ,| oll |,| e breasted, drawers re enforced,were
8 tails tor $8.50, worth at least one-halt 8ol(1 as ~ | eai|(l| . for fj(k „ ow 39c to cloße
more than that. tox Scarfs 44, 60 and ouL Urgo men como and see them.
80 inches long, rur Jackets to close out . , ,
at 112.50, worth S2O. „ A , lot o( s. Ladies and Childrens
Underwear u» broken sizefl, will l»e closed
COATS. out at a great reduction,
Ladies' and Children's Cloth Coats. < >ur entire stock of Men's, Ladies'and
Jackets, eto., will be closed out at a Children's All-Wool Underwear 10 per
great sacrifice. Cent 0,1 thu regular price.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.
Republican News Item.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTE. PENNA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1902.
F' JRST NATIONAL BANK
OK DUSHORE, PENNA.
CAPITAL - - $50,000.
SURPLUS - - #IO.OOO.
Does'a'Oeneral Banking Business.
B.W. JENNINGS, M. D. BWARTS.
President. costlier
J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATfORMKYH-AT-LAW,
Legal Kusincps attended to
in ctiin and adjoining countie*
_A PORTE, p A.
£ J. MULLEN,
Atto r n e y-at- La w.
LAPORTK, PA.
orrica in poijrtv hijildik«
If RAR COURT HOURK.
£ J. BRADLEY,
ATTORNET-AT-LAW,
Office Building, Cor.Main and Muncy .Sts,
LAPORTE, PA
] H. CRONIN,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OTPICS ON MAIN STItBKT.
DUSHORE, PA
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.""
AVID TEMPLE, Prop.
LAPORI'E . A
This larg.t and we l l nppointcd house is
the must popular hosl*iry in this section
LAPORTE HOTEL.
P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop.
Newly erected. Opposite Court
Mouse square. Steam beat, bath rooms,
hot and cold water, reading and pool
room,and barber shop; also good stabling
and livery,
T J. KEELER.
I ■ Justiee-of-the Peace.
Otticein room over store, LAPORTE, PA.
Special attention given to collections,
All matters left to the care ot this office
will be promptly attended to.
HOTEL GUY.
MILDRED, PA.
R. n. GUV, - Proprietor.
Newly "furnished throughout, special
attention given to the wants of the travel
ing public. Bar stocked with first class
wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer
on the market always on tap.
Rutes Reasonable.
LIME
At the OLD OPP KILNS
112 Located near Hughesville.'jj
""This is the purest lime on
the ridge. We will compete
with any dealer on car load
lots delivered on the W. &N.
B. R. R. with our own cars,
giving purchaser ample time
to unload.
All correspondency will
receive prompt attention.
Address,
A. T. ARMSTRONG,
SONESTOWN, P/.
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• # 112 IT'S WORTH
WHILE
to step in and absorb a little
General Knowledge that is to
be found in a really down to
date General Store.
Price Reduction on
Closing out Goods now on
lExmßiWoNl
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STEP IN AND ASK
ABOUT THEM.
All answered at
Vernon Hull's
Large Store.
HilLigrove* Pa.
IBIW lIIiOWJK 11811
After Desperate Battle Murderers
Are Recaptured Near Butler.
MRS. SOFFEL SHOOTS HERSELF
| The Brothers Fought Desperately, and
Were Only Taken After One Was
Mortally Wounded and the Other
Riddled With Shot.
Butler, Pa., Feb. 1. —Edward anil
John Biddle, who escaped from the
Allegheny county jail last Thursday,
aided and accompanied by Mrs. Peter
H. Softel, wife of the warden, was
recaptured last Friday by a posse of
officers. They were traced to near
this place and the authorities at Pitts
bug were notified.
The Pittsburg officers were met at
Butler by Deputy Sheriffs Rainey and
Noon and Officers Frank Holliday and
Aaron Thompson. The officers were
certain that they were on the right
trail. It was only a question of time
when they would catch up to the es
caping condemned murderers and their
guilty companion.
The Biddies and Mrs. SoffeLate din
ner at J. J. Stephens at Mount Chest
nut, Ave miles east of Butler. They
had made a detour of the town of
Butler, and after going several miles
cast turned north and then west. The
Pittsburg officers, only a few miles in
the rear, took the wrong road for
about eight miles, but when they found
out their mistake they made up for
lost time by telephoning and tele
graphing ahead for fresh horses They
reached Mount Chostnut not less than
half an hour after the Biddies and
Mrs. Soffel. At this point fresh horses
were awaiting them, and the chase for
life began anew.
The two sleighs, with the eight offi
cers aboard, started westward, and
met the Biddies and ' Mrs. Soffel at
McClure's barn, two miles from Mount
Prospect. The Biddies having learned
that they were almost overtaken, and,
taking what they considered the only
chance they had, drove eastward and
met their doom. The Pittsburg and
other officers were armed with Win
chester rifles and revolvers of large
calibre. They shot to kill, and their
aim was perfect. The Biddies tried
'„o kill to the last of their string, but
not one of the eight officers has a
wound as the result of the battle.
When the detectives got to within
about 60 yards of the fugitives they
opeued Are. The Biddies promptly
answered with shot gun and revolvers.
When Ed Biddle fell and Mrs. Soffel
saw she was about to be captured she
flred a bullet Into her breast.
Ed Biddle got a bullet In the breast
which penetrated his right lung. John
Biddle may recover, his wounds, al
though numerous, failing to reach a
vital spot. The escape of the officers
is miraculous. The Biddies have
demonstrated on several occasions
that they are good marksmen, and
why they should have failed yester
day to bring down their men is a
mystery.
After the Biddies fell to the enow
coverod ground the officers picked up
the apparently lifeless bodies of Mrs.
Soffel and the Biddies and came
back to Butler, bringing the stolen
sleigh, patched up harness and worn
out horse that the trio had tried so
strenuously to get away with toward
Canada and liberty.
John Biddle died at 7.35 on Satur
day evening. His brother, Ed, who had
been unconscious practically all day,
survived until 11 o'clock, when he, too,
went over the groat divide. Mrs. Sof
fel, who developed symptoms of pneu
monia, has a chance for life, and un
less some unforeseen complication sets
In, will recover.
A great deal of sympathy for the boys
is expressed on all sides, and not a
few of the female portion of the crowd
expressed a desire to see what manner
of a man Ed Biddle was vaat he should
exert such a wonderful influence over
men, and particularly women. The
Jail doors were closed, and no one got
in but the doctors, who attended the
autopsy and the coroner's jury, which
organized Sunday morning.
The verdict of the jury was that Bd
Biddle came to his death by a revolver
shot flred from a 32-callbre revolver
by himself, and that John Biddle met
Ills death from a gunshot wcund in
flicted by the officers in the discharge
of their lawful duty.
A lost love letter from Ed Biddle to
his sweetheart, Mrs. Kate Soffel,
found in the snow near the bloody
scene of their capture, reveals the
long and careful plot for their escape
from the Allegheny county jail. The
letter clearly shows the hazardous un
dertakings of the infatuated woman
to secure the escape of the Biddies.
Slnco December 2, 1901, they ha 1 been
making preparations to escape. The
discovered epistle tells how Mrs. Sof
fel carried the saws to the cells of the
Biddies. it manifests the extreme
enamoratlon of Mrs. Soffel for the
murderer and burglar. It clearly shows
the wonderful influence Ed Biddle had
over Mrs. Soffel.
Mre. Soffel fell ia love with Ed Bid
die in November. The burglar soon
realized hie ,>ower over her. It was
not long until he started to write love
letters to her. Mtb. Soffel fell madly
In love with Ed Biddle, and about the
early part of December he proposed
a plan of escape to her. She concentcd
•to lend htm her aid. Between De
cember 14 and 16 they had completed
kll arrangements to escape from the
{fall. Then they learned of the gov
ernor's respite. After this Ed Biddle
almost persuaded Mrs. Soffel to fly
with him and his brother. The con
tents of the letter show It was origi
nally agreed that Mrs. Soffel was to
leave the city for Canada on the eve
of the boys' escape.
WATBRBURY SWEPT BY Flßti
Flames Destroy Business Section of
City, Cauftlng 92,000,000 Loss.
Waterbury, Conn., Feb. 3. —The
most disastrous fire In the history of
Watefbury broke out in the heart of
the city last evening and caused a
loss of 92,000,000. A. large section of
the business part of the city was
wiped out. The Are originated in the
upholstery department on the third
floor of the store of the Reid &
Hughes Dry Goods Company, at 108-
11*12 Bank street. The flames were
not discovered until they had gained
tremendous headway.
When the Are department reached
the scene flames were issuing from
every window of the building, and it
was evident that the structure was
doomed. The first building to catch
from the Reld ft Hughes Company
store was a tall structure to the rear
and westward, occupied by the Salva
tion Army barracks and a Turkish
bath. A moment or two later the
fiames leaped hack to the eastward
across Bank street and wiped out the
Ryan * Fltzmaurice black, Cannon &
Webster's drug store, Davis' cigar
store and the store of J. B. Mulllngs
ft Sons. They burned rapidly through
to South Main street, jumped across
that street, shriveling up the buildings
like paper. At the same time the
flames caught the Masonic Temple
and traveled from the Salvation Army
building to the rear of the Franklin
House, on Grand street and the entire
block, consisting of seven or eight
handsome flve-Btory buildings, with 30
tenements and the large and commo
dious headquarters of the Waterbury
American were destroyed, 9*'
The militia was called out to pre
serve order. There was serious talk
of blowing up buildings to prevent the
spread of the flames, but the Idea was
abandoned.
The local flre-flghters were assist
ed by men and apparatus from Hart
ford, Torrlngton, Bridgeport, New
Haven and Naugatuck.
$900,000 FIRE AT NORFOLK
Atlantic Hotel and Several Other
Large Buildings Destroyed.
Norfolk. Va., Feb. 1. —A heap of
smoking ruins Is all that remains of
the Atlantic hotel, the massive Colum
bia office building, which adjoins the
hotel; the Albemarle Flats and a block
of stores in the centre of the city.
The conflagration, one of the great
est In the history of Norfolk, broke out
shortly before daylight yesterday
morning, and when Anally subdued
over $900,000 worth •of property had
been destroyed. The flames started
In the Columbia, six stories high,
which is the largest but one of Nor
folk's ofllee buildings.
Shortly after the flro was discov
ered over 1,000 gallons of whiskey
stored in the building exploded with
terrific force, tearing out the front
wall. The firemen were driven back
by the explosion, and before they
could get a stream of water on tho
flames the entire building was afire.
Hardly 15 minutes later the north
wall, which was over 75 feet high,
fell In, completely annihilating the
home of the Virginia Club, which ad
joins the building on the north
The flames soon spread to the flve
story Albemarle apartment house, op
posite the Virginia Club, which was
quickly destroyed, and then to the en
tire block facing the Atlantic and
riin-.'ng from Plume to Main Btreets.
Within an honr this block was en
tirely destroyed.
Pennsylvania Will Get $600,000.
Washington. Feb. 3. —The committee
on appropriations concluded the con
gld-ration of the urgent deficiency ap
propriation bill. Provision for Prince
Henry's visit and the coronation mis
sion was made, but the amounts are
not Anally settled on. The committee
also has decided to recommend the
payment of the interest claims of such
states as advanced money to the United
States during the civil war and are
able to show action by the court of
claims. Pennsylvania, by this decision, j
will be benefited to the extenf of
$600,000.
Submarine Boat Launched.
Elizabeth City, N. J., Feb. B.—The
submarine torpedo boat Plunger was
launched at Elizabethport on Satur
day. The vessel was named by Mrs.
Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland. The
new boat glided off the way 6 easily
and was towed out Into the stream by
the twebeat -ttrU
i.25 fr - Year
TRIED TOjMH NBO
Chester Murderer Had a Narrow
Escape From Mob.
EXTRA GUARDB AT CITY JAIL
Mob Tore Down Gate to Jail Yard,
When They Were Met By Officers
With Drawn Revolvers—Mayor Ad
dressed Crowd.
Chester, Pa., Feb. 3.—Albert West,
the negro, who shot and killed Police
man Mark Allen on the street here at
midnight Saturday, was captured yes
terday afternoon In a stable at Darby,
and he narrowly escaped lynching by
an angry crowd when brought to the
jail here.
Policeman Allen, while patrolling his
beat shortly before midnight, saw We3t.
and a colored woman quarreling. The
woman screamed murder and ran from
West, and the policeman placed the lat
ter under arrest. The negro quickly
pulled a revolver and shot Allen in the
leg, breaking the bone, and as ha foil
to the sidewalk West stood over him
and fired two more shots into his body,
death resulting shortly after. West es
caped, and an all night hunt by the en
tire police force failed to locate him.
A trolley car conductor informed the
police that a negro answering West'a
description had ridden on his car to
Darby yesterday morr.ing, and two po
licemen upon going to this place found
West hiding In the manger of a stable.
When covered by their revolvers, the
negro begged the policemen not to kill
him. The news of the capture of the
murderer preceded the arrival of the
officers with their prisoner, and when
they reached the city hall in a car a
crowd of 2,000 persons was In 'waiting.
Cries of "Lynch him," "Kill him,"
made the wretch crouch in the bottom
of the car, and when he was brought
out on the platform there wa« a rush
and a number of persons struck him
with umbrellas and canes, while an ef
fort was vsade to get him away from
the policemen. The negro was hustled
Into the city hall, and the crowd, seeing
that It was Impossible to reach him in
the narrow corridor, ran around to the
court yard in the rear of the build
ing. The big rate vras barred, but a
hundred shoulders wer& placed against
it and it was torn down, and the mob
rustied~in with yells of "Lynch him."
The city jail stands in this court yard,
and, fearing that a rush would be made
in that direction, Chief Leary placed a
platoon of police in the driveway, and
the officers with drawn revolvers
quailed the crowd with a grim deter
mination to prevent a lynching.
The crowd sullenly retired, but si plot
was soon made for a second onslaught,
and it was necessary to place some of
the leaders in custody temporarily to
quiet the crowd. Mayor Jeffeila
placed a chair on the sidewalk, and. ad
dressing the crowd, assured the angry
men that justice would be done, and
urged his hearers not to place anything
in the way of an orderly procedure of
law. The crowd still lingered, and an
nightfall found the street still packed
with people, extra guards were placed
at the city hall.
Poliaeman Allen was one of the most
popular men on the force. He was 33
years of age and unmarried.
AWFUL MINE ACCIDENT
Dust Explosion Kills 10f Miners at
Hondo, Mexico.
San Antonio, Tex., Feb. S —One hun
dred and six miners killed, and SO bur
ied under debris is the fearful record
made by a dust explosion at the Hondo
mines in Mexoco. At the time of the
explosion there were ItSO miners at
work in themine, all of whom were en
tombed by the shaft being choked up
by falling earth and stone, loosened by
the explosion. Eighty-five dead bodies
have been recovered.
Every mule in the mine was L.iil";l,
three dead ones being taken troui t a
debris yesterday. The work of Soar
ing away the wreck in order to fc*t ■
the bodies is being rushed as rarUly
as possible, but there 1s no ho;>c li.ut
any of the 106 men will be i-esciic 1
alive. 1.
The explosion occurre.-l in mino Mo.
6, and was occasioned by striking a
gas pocket.
Refused Vaccination and Was ?!:ct.
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 3. —A speci;>l
from Marion, N. C., gives the derails
of the shooting of -a man who
to be vaccinated, by Deputy Shori 112
Watkins. The man had hoen ar
raigned before a magistrate and after
the trial got Into an altercation wit i
the deputy, who shot him in the head.
He Iras alive at last accounts, but will
probably die.
Petitioned the Pope.
Nlles, Mich., Feb. 3. —Catholic cler
gymen in Michigan and Indiana h:- .u
petitioned the Pope to confer the title
of "monsignor" on Rev. Father M.
Rasklewicz, of Otis, Ind., tfie oldest
priest in Indiana. At present there U
no divine with that title in this sec
tion of the country.
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